釣る

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: S
kun'yomi
See also 釣り

Etymology

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Man'yōshū of circa 759 CE.[1] From Proto-Japonic *turu. Cognate with 吊る (tsuru, to hang).[2]

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「釣る
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
釣る
Imperative (命令形) 釣れ
Key constructions
Passive 釣られる られる
Causative 釣らせる らせる
Potential 釣れる れる
Volitional 釣ろう
Negative 釣らない らない
Negative perfective 釣らなかった らなかった
Formal 釣ります りま
Perfective 釣った った
Conjunctive 釣って って
Hypothetical conditional 釣れば

Verb

() (tsurutransitive godan (stem () (tsuri), past ()った (tsutta))

  1. to fish, to angle

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ 釣・吊”, in 日本国語大辞典 (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
  2. ^ ”, in デジタル大辞泉 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months